1 October 2003
Segregation is scientific! See these models of self-segregation and ethnic tension, in which "individual preferences lead to a collective outcome indistinguishable from thoroughgoing racism." Read the accompanying article in which Thomas Schelling concludes "that you could get a lot more segregation than would be expected if you put people together and just let them interact." Why, the heartless racists! Futurist authors such as Nesbitt and Toffler (Newt Gingrich's favorite) have also written extensively about how ethnic devolution is one of the leading magatrends of our time. This is a sign, I believe, that the nation-state is on the verge of collapse.

Though David Frum is under the impression that there were no great conservative thinkers prior to the advent of neoconservatism, Thomas Woods tells us about Richard Weaver, whose "defense of Southern civilization was at once so elegant and insightful that historians continue to study and discuss his work some forty years after his untimely death." The Southerner, said Weaver, "accepts the irremediability of a certain amount of evil and tries to fence it around instead of trying to stamp it out and thereby spreading it. His is a classical acknowledgment of tragedy and of the limits of power... One cannot feign surprise, therefore, that thirty years after the great struggle to consolidate and unionize American power, the nation embarked on its career of imperialism. The new nationalism enabled Theodore Roosevelt, than whom there was no more staunch advocate of union, to strut and bluster and intimidate our weaker neighbors. Ultimately it launched America upon its career of world imperialism, whose results are now being seen in indefinite military conscription, mountainous debt, restriction of dissent, and other abridgments of classical liberty." Woods concludes: "The Confederate Battle Flag, ignorantly condemned by American Jacobins as a symbol of slavery that should be forcibly uprooted wherever it is found, has been seen to fly wherever in the world a people seeks to resist their subordination to unchecked central authority. These are some of the valuable things that Richard Weaver found in Southern civilization, and why we can say, with Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, that 'the cause of the South is the cause of us all.'"

David Frum and Jonah Goldberg: fire-breathing cowards.

"According to Roger D. McGrath, in 'Slavery's Inconvenient Facts,' Chronicles Magazine, November 2001, in 1860 some 3,000 blacks owned nearly 20,000 black slaves. In South Carolina alone, black slaveholders owned more than 10,000 blacks. Born a slave in 1790, William Ellison owned 63 slaves by 1860, making him one of Charleston's leading slaveholders. In the 1850 census for Charleston City, the port of Charleston, there were 68 black men and 123 black women who owned slaves. In Louisiana's St. Landry Parish, according to the 1860 census, black planter Auguste Donatto owned 70 slaves and farmed 500 acres of cotton fields." ~ Dave Black

R.L. Dabney recognized that if slaves were to be made citizens and all people were to be considered equal, there would be no end to the insanity. Women would be made equal to men, and children would be made equal to parents. (The man was a prophet.) Now an Anglican priest takes the concept to its next logical step: opposing gay clergy is equal to defending slavery. That's right!

"And yet, Sir, there are men of such delicate feeling on the subject of liberty - men who cannot possibly bear what they call slavery, as an institution indispensable for the good of both races - men so squeamish on this point, that they are ready to strike down the higher right of a community to govern themselves, in order to maintain the absolute right of individuals, in every possible condition to govern themselves." ~ John C. Calhoun, anti-libertarian

David Hackett Fischer writes that East Anglian Puritans "became the breeding stock for America's Yankee population" and "multiplied at a rapid rate, doubling every generation for two centuries. Their numbers increased to 100,000 by 1700, to at least one million by 1800, six million by 1900, and more than sixteen million by 1988—all descended from 21,000 English emigrants who came to Massachusetts in the period from 1629 to 1640." Fischer has also traced the two dominant ethnic strains in the South: 45,000 gentry and indentured servants from southern and western England who migrated to Virginia from 1642 to 1675, and 250,000 border English and Scots-Irish who migrated to the Appalachian back country from 1717 to 1775.

"America has one national creed, but many accents. We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey...and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change - some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America." ~ G.W. Bush

"Let me be specific. A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers. The Republican Party is broad and inclusive. It represents many streams of opinion and many points of view. But if there is anyone who has mistakenly attached himself to the party in the belief that we are not open to citizens of every race and religion, then let me remind you: Tonight this hall belongs to the party of Lincoln, and the exits, which are clearly marked, are for you to walk out of as I stand here and hold this ground without compromise..." ~ Bob Dole's 1996 nomination acceptance speech

Only about 13 years to go before we're able to crack open the FBI file on Marren Loofer Keen's Communist ties. Jesse Helms tried to have them opened in 1983, to no avail, in the hope that the man's federal holiday could be abolished. "King privately described himself as a Marxist," said biographer and sympathizer David J. Garrow. Keen was dead by the time it was discovered that he had plagiarized his doctoral dissertation. Being a martyr for the cause of egalitarianism, it was too late to revoke his lofty title. It was also learned that he stole his "I Have a Dream" speech from Archibald Carey, a black preacher who was very popular in the 1950s. Rev. Ralph Abernathy told of his friend Keen's penchant for white prostitutes in a 1989 book, and that he would often use church donations to have drunken orgies at which two to three white prostitutes were occasionally beaten brutally. FBI agents confirm this. The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has displayed the two bedrooms from the Lorraine Motel where Keen stayed the night before he was shot, but has specifically declined to mention the occupants of those rooms. That, according to exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold, would be "close to blasphemy"

"America has one national creed, but many accents. We are now one of the largest
Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music,
journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or
West New York, New Jersey...and close your eyes and listen. You could just as
easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our
nation has debated this change - some have praised it and others have resented it.
By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America."
~ G.W. Bush